The Pharaoh and Cleopatra returned for another go-round in the final installment of this series. It’s much better than the first one, since it’s just a little less like the usual formula. This one does have an exceptionally bugnuts premise, though. The villain, played by Peter Mark Richman, wishes that he could get to Egypt to search the pyramid of King Tut for a hypnotic ring called the Coptic Eye, but fortunately some eccentric billionaire has actually moved the entire thing to Los Angeles, brick by brick. Apparently he didn’t uncover the ring in all that moving, nor any of the secret and hidden traps. Almost the entire action is set inside the pyramid’s labyrinth, and the heroes and villains have to briefly work together to escape it.

This and the other Pharaoh episode were written by Judy Strangis’s nephew Greg Strangis, who also wrote that Land of the Lost we watched last night. Kind of weird how we watched all of his work for the Kroffts across about seven days. He later developed that War of the Worlds show in the late ’80s that was shown in first-run syndication.

Also, for those of you keeping track, this time we’ve got snakes in the narrative, and, just like the spiders in the last story, they don’t appear onscreen at the same time as the actors, either. Daniel really liked this one, and said it was “totally exciting.” He could barely keep still tonight.

This was it for Electra Woman and Dyna Girl. ABC did renew their host program, The Krofft Supershow, for a second season that began in the fall of 1977, but by then, Deidre Hall was starring in Days of Our Lives and may not have been available. The action component of the Supershow was taken in that season by Bigfoot and Wildboy, which sadly has never been officially released on home video outside of five episodes on those Embassy VHS tapes about thirty years ago.

The Kroffts attempted to revive Electra Woman and Dyna Girl as a comedy for the WB Network in 2001, starring Markie Post as a retired Electra Woman. The pilot didn’t sell. Earlier this month, after an eternity of advance hype, a direct-to-download film starring Grace Helbig and Hannah Hart was released. Haven’t quite got around to downloading it myself, though I’m assured that Helbig and Hart make very funny sketches on their YouTube channel. (Don’t they make DVDs anymore?)

One response to “Electra Woman 1.15 and 16 – Return of the Pharaoh”

Am I the only person that absolutely hates remakes? Yes, the budget of the original EW & DG was ridiculously low and the special effects extremely cheesy even by 1970’s standards, but that is exactly what gave the show its charm! Having the show be “serious” like the 2001 remake didn’t work for me even though I did like the actresses in that remake. The new one I will not even watch. Just as with Wonder Woman (LC version), Batgirl, Cat Woman, ect. there will never be any woman today that can top the originals. There isn’t going to be any two that will ever top Deidre and Judy as EW & DG!!

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